Dengzhou has mountainous land and hilly land, and there is not much land available for cultivation. In addition, the current agricultural technology is underdeveloped and the yield per mu is not high. Therefore, agriculture is not a major industry for Dengzhou. There are three main industries supporting Dengzhou, fishing, salt and sea trade, as well as slave harvesting, gold mining, fruit planting, etc. There are not many people engaged in these industries, and they can only play a certain role in supplementing the main business.

Due to the restrictions on the types of sea ships and commodities, Li Yan did not do much, but only expanded the ports and reduced unreasonable taxes to stimulate the growth of sea trade. In addition, although new sea ships have also been developed, they are still under trial voyage. It is estimated that it will take at least a few years to promote it to the entire Tang Dynasty.

The growth of sea trade is limited, but the two aspects of fishing and salt give Li Yan enough room to display. Now the use of trawls in the fishing industry is extremely common. The previous fishing model of small and scattered households has been completely broken, but a situation where the Qi Wangfu fishing team was led by the Qi Wangfu fishing team and other large and small fishing teams coexist.

Behind these fishing teams are one or several strong fishery merchants. They use fishing boats, fishing nets and other means of production to spend money to hire people to fish for them. Using the new fishing method of trawling, not only does it make huge profits, but also squeezes and goes bankrupt by many small fishermen.

The salt industry is similar to the fishery industry. With the promotion of salt drying, salt households with strong capital have invested in building salt fields, while small households are unable to use new technologies, and the cost of boiling salt is too high to sell at all. Now the salt produced in Dengzhou has increased exponentially, but small households have less and less salt.

Whether it is trawling nets or drying salt, the emergence of these two new technologies has broken the rice bowls that many fishermen and salt people have passed down for many years. Many people, for the sake of livelihood, joined fishing teams or salt factories run by large households, and did something similar to before. Some of them entered the newly opened seafood processing plants. These workers received a lot of wages per month, but in fact they did not have any means of production. It can be said that they are full-time workers.

The technological innovation of the fishing and salt industry has made the variety of seafood more and more abundant, and the price of salt in Dengzhou is also getting lower and lower. With the spread of maritime merchants in various places, these have attracted more and more merchants to Dengzhou. Therefore, Dengzhou now seems extremely busy by sea or land, and the tax revenue of Dengzhou Prefecture has also increased by several steps. Even the nearby states have benefited a little, and at least the cargo flow has increased several times.

With the busy trade routes, the demand for fishing, salt and other goods in Dengzhou has increased again. Although the production of salt factories has been affected by shortage of people some time ago, this problem has been greatly alleviated with the purchase and sale of slaves. In addition, it is now summer, as long as there is no cloudy days, the output of salt factories has been increasing.

Compared with the salt industry that only requires manpower, site and weather, fishing seems a bit troublesome. The most important thing is the limitation of fishing boats. Although the existing fishing boats were renovated some time ago, there were not many fishing boats suitable for transformation in Dengzhou. Therefore, after the transformation, many fishing teams placed orders for new ships from the shipyard, but it took time to build ships. Moreover, the shipyards in Dengzhou cannot all build fishing boats, so each fishing team has more people and fewer boats, and even the fishing teams of the King of Qi Mansion are no exception.

Because of this, the fishing teams now implement a rotation system. After a boat docks, the crew on the boat comes down, and the other crew members who were resting immediately board the boat to check the performance of the boat. If there is no major damage, they will go to sea immediately.

Calculate the day, today is the day when the fishing team of the Qi Palace returned. Zhou Tu took his crew and several other captains to stand on the dock and wait. Zhou Tu was the first person to join the fishing team of the palace. He was down-to-earth and hardworking and skilled in fishing. He also learned the new technology of trawling, so he was appointed as the captain, and more than a dozen people were under his control on a boat.

After waiting for a while, I saw a few familiar masts on the sea in the distance, and then several large fishing boats with the bows painted with the words "Qi" appeared on the sea.

One, two, three... Zhou Tu and others counted silently in their hearts, and found that there were quite a few fishing boats going out to sea this time, so they felt relieved. Last night, the wind blew on the sea, but fortunately the fishing boats in the palace were all fine.

The fleet was about to dock, and Zhou Tu and his team immediately met and prepared to help unload the fish. But what they didn't expect was that as soon as the first ship landed, a person jumped out of it. Seeing Zhou Tu immediately shouted anxiously: "Uncle Tu, find me a horse, I want to see the prince immediately!"

The person who jumped down was Zhou Yu, the manager of the fishing team. He led the team last time he went to sea. But now he saw that his clothes were broken and he had a few scars on his body. I don’t know what happened.

"Three son, you are..."

After all, Zhou Tu is Zhou Yu's elder. Seeing his appearance, he naturally wanted to ask clearly, but Zhou Yu waved his hand and said, "Uncle Tu, you should stop asking first. Life is at stake. I have to see the prince as soon as possible!"

Seeing Zhou Yu's anxious look, Zhou Tu and the others dared not waste their time anymore. They hurriedly found a carriage on the dock. After sending Zhou Yu away, they immediately rushed onto the boat. After asking the crew for the situation, Zhou Tu and the others were all angry. Some young people even wanted to drive the boat out of the sea immediately and settle the score with the people opposite.

"Boom! The little Goguryeo dares to be so arrogant. Do you really think that our Tang Dynasty has no choice but to do anything to them?" In the Qi Palace, Li Yan heard Zhou Yu's report and looked at the other party's embarrassing appearance. He immediately became furious and scolded Goguryeo for being arrogant.

It turned out that Zhou Yu and the others went fishing in the sea this time, not far from the Beisha City of Goguryeo. Everything was going well, but last night, several of their boats had enough fish. When they were about to come back, they were stopped by a team of Goguryeo warships. They insisted that this was in Goguryeo and the fish were also Goguryeo fish. They came to fish without authorization, which violated the laws of Goguryeo. Therefore, they not only had to confiscate the fish they caught, but also had to detain them with people and boats.

Seeing that the other party was so arrogant, Zhou Yu was naturally dissatisfied, so he stepped forward and argued for a few words. Unexpectedly, he immediately received a beating from the other party. This is how the injury on his body came. Fortunately, he was clever and immediately reported the name of the Qi Palace of the Tang Dynasty when he saw that the timing was wrong. The other party was also surprised when he heard this. After all, Dengzhou was not far from Beisha City, and Goguryeo had long heard of Li Yan's name. He knew that he was the favorite son of His Majesty the Tang Dynasty, so he dared not be as arrogant as before, so he released them back, but the fish caught on the boat were still detained.

"Your Highness, it would be fine if you just catch fish, but yesterday I saw that some ships from my Tang Dynasty were captured between their warships. It seemed that they should be the ships of the tiger shark slave hunting team." After Zhou Yu talked about his own experience, he told the situation he saw. The slave hunting team and the fishing team were both acting on the same sea surface, and they were very familiar with each other, so he was so sure.

"What, even my slave-catching team dares to capture me?" When he heard this, Yan Bei next to him immediately jumped up. Although the boss behind the slave-catching team was Li Yan, he was always in charge of the front desk. Therefore, the slave-catching team has always been regarded as a forbidden body by him, and even Li Yan couldn't get in. Now when he heard someone dared to move the slave-catching team, it was like robbing his woman.

"Didn't the slave hunting team always go to Silla? How could they be arrested in Goguryeo? Could it be..." Li Yan said this, his face suddenly darkened, his sharp eyes turned to Yanbei, and asked viciously, "Brother Yan, I seem to remember that on the day your slave hunting association was established, I said not to cause trouble in Goguryeo for the time being?"

He repeatedly explained this matter. First, Goguryeo and Silla Baekje are different. Both the national strength and the combat power of the army are quite considerable. Second, the three strategies he proposed to pacify Liao, the first two of which were mainly aimed at Goguryeo and were implemented smoothly. In this case, there is no need to spare any effort to provoke Goguryeo. When Liaodong is defeated in two years, what should I do if I want to do?

"Liulang, it's unfair!" Yan Bei hurriedly called out to himself, "Although now, both coal mines and Dengzhou are so scarce that they are lacking. They can only rely on Silla to buy them. Now they are almost all robbed. Even if they add Baekje, it will be useless. Although Japan can also provide slaves, the distance is farther, and the Japanese slaves are short and cannot be sold at any price, so not many people are willing to go. But even in such a difficult situation, I still issued strict orders to the people below and absolutely not allowed to capture slaves in Goguryeo!"

Yan Bei analyzed the three countries that were the target of slaves with a grievance. Compared with them, Goguryeo's conditions were unique. On the one hand, it was closest to Dengzhou, and on the other hand, it was a large population. He could only watch and dare not take action. This was even more uncomfortable than killing him.

"That's strange. The slave capturing team in Dengzhou passed by Goguryeo for more than a day or two. How could they be suddenly arrested?" Li Yan said to himself.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, his face turned cold and said, "Hmph! Now is not the time to study these things. People have been caught by Goguryeo. If it delays for a few more days, it is estimated that the people in the slave hunting team will turn into corpses, but how can we rescue people?"
Chapter completed!